Craig Premack, who was shot while riding on the Trans-Canada Highway at 1 a.m. during an overnight road cycling event near Spences Bridge, B.C., in June, shows where the bullet entered his forearm during a news conference at RCMP headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on July 29, 2014. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Craig Premack, who was shot while riding on the Trans-Canada Highway at 1 a.m. during an overnight road cycling event near Spences Bridge, B.C., in June, shows where the bullet entered his forearm during a news conference at RCMP headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on July 29, 2014.(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

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“But then my right forearm just blew up,” Premack said at a police news conference Tuesday. “Seconds later I could feel the warmth of the blood rolling down my leg. I quickly realized that I had been shot and pedalled faster to escape.”

Premack said the bullet entered his right forearm, just below his elbow.

As he tried to make sense of what was happening, he saw a dark-coloured vehicle leaving a highway pullout.

“It was almost like a bad dream. I looked down and I could feel the blood. My goodness, I’ve been shot. I’ve really been shot. And all I could think was get away.”

Premack said he slowed the bleeding with a tourniquet he fashioned out of a pair of pants, and hoped his cycling buddies would soon come by.

He said some cyclists were 20 minutes ahead of him and others were 20 minutes behind him in the cycling event that runs from Metro Vancouver to B.C.’s southern Interior and back.

“After the longest 20 minutes of my life I could see the lights of what could only be my cycling friends. They were quick to react, with one of them riding back to Spences Bridge to summon help.”

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